To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn'… - Saki

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To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

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About Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)

Saki (18 December 1870 – 13 November 1916) was the pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture.

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Birth Name: Hector Hugh Munro

Alternative Names: H. H. Munro

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To have reached thirty," said Reginald, "is to have failed in life.

Eleanor hated boys, and she would have liked to have whipped this one long and often. It was perhaps the yearning of a woman who had no children of her own.

Romance at short notice was her speciality.

To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments. - Saki

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